actu

actu is a Latin form of ago, meaning “drive, do, act; discuss”.

It can also be a form of actus, “act (of a play); driving, motion; deed”. It is the ablative singular masculine noun or supine dative singular neuter.

Found 65 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.2.18: … oppidorum fanorumque spoliationes cogitaret, cum videret in foro latrocinia praeturae, qualis iste in quarto actu improbitatis futurus esset? atque ut intellegatis eum Romae quaesisse non modo genera furandi, sed etiam nomi …

Seneca the Younger, Epistulae 15.93.4: … te, Lucili, hoc agamus, ut quemadmodum pretiosa rerum sic vita nostra non multum pateat, sed multum pendeat. Actu illam metiamur, non tempore. Vis scire, quid inter hunc intersit vegetum contemptoremque fortunae functum omn …

All forms of ago (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.